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The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman
The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.The husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.
London: printed by M.S., 1668
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IN the next place, let us observe from the 1Place of his employment, The Lord put him into the Garden of Eden, That its a great privilege to be placed in an Eden, that is Comfortably. Our Father Adam had the finest Seat in all the Country, the sweetest on Earth, and the nighest unto Heaven, he had the dew of Heaven and the fatness of the Earth.
IN the next place, let us observe from the 1Place of his imployment, The Lord put him into the Garden of Eden, That its a great priviledge to be placed in an Eden, that is Comfortably. Our Father Adam had the finest Seat in all the Countrey, the sweetest on Earth, and the nighest unto Heaven, he had the dew of Heaven and the fatness of the Earth.
- 1§ 4. A third observation.
Now when your temporal, corporal, and spiritual conveniences are greater then their contrary inconveniences, then is your situation comfortable. And God expects that you praise him more, and serve him better then others, Psal. 16. 6, 7. The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places—I will bless the Lord. The sweeter Seat, the greater Rent you must pay unto God. When thou lookest on thy habitation, bless the Lord; when thou walkest in thy ground, bless the Lord; many others they have barren ground, rotten house, unwholesome ⟨p. 14⟩Air, dangerous situation; now if it be otherwise with thee, say not I have gotten this by my wit, or labour, or sword, but Lord thy right hand, and t•ine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto me,